Roanoke Times
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DATE: TUESDAY, November 14, 1995 TAG: 9511150004
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The Winter Tour of World Figure Skating Champions will perform Feb. 9 at 7:30 p.m. at the Roanoke Civic Center.
The event features Olympic and world gold, silver and bronze medalists from around the world, including Oksana Baiul, Michelle Kwan, Brian Boitano, Viktor Petrenko, Calla Urbanski and Rocky Marval and Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko.
Tickets are on sale at the civic center box office, Ticketmaster outlets or charge by phone (343-8100). All tickets are $35.
Families needed
Host families are needed for high school students from France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Denmark and other foreign countries for the 1996-97 school year in a program sponsored by the American International Youth Student Exchange Program.
The students, ages 15 to 18, will arrive in late August, attend local high schools and return home in June of 1997.
The students, all fluent in English, have been screened by school representatives in their home countries and will have spending money and medical insurance.
For more information, call 552-2014 or (800) 347-7575.
Hollins lecture, dance
New York's Jane Comfort and Company will give a lecture and demonstration and perform their dance "S/He" Wednesday at Hollins College.
"S/He" examines gender and role reversal. Featuring characters like a pregnant man, a black female president and a husband-beating wife, the work seeks to reveal the injustice of a patriarchal and racist society. It begins at 8:15 p.m. in the Hollins Theatre.
The lecture, demonstration and workshop on simple compositional techniques will be at 4:40 p.m. in the Botetourt Dance Studio.
Both activities are free and open to the public.
by CNB